female transport
by Steve Gooch April 23-May 2, 2004
Photo: Damon Meledones
The Department of Theatre presents Female Transport
by Steve Gooch, directed by Christopher Owens. It’s
1807 and the petty crimes of a hundred women have resulted
in their forced transportation to the British penal colony
of Australia. What begins as a riotous group of disparate
cellmates transforms during the six month sea journey
to a tough, unified matriarchal society—ready to
change the wild land they are about to inhabit into a
more just place than the England they left behind. As
songs of the period punctuate and underscore the action,
these women strive to prove themselves more civilized
below deck than their male captors above.
Direction: Christopher Owens Set Design: William T. Brown Costume Design: Karen Murphy Light/Sound Design: Terry Cobb Vocal Director: Lynn Watson Original Music/Arrangements: Ron Barnett Fight Director: Paul Gallagher
